- Assets case: HC asks ex - Punjab DGP Sumedh Saini to join investigation
The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday directed Punjab’s former Director General of Police Sumedh Singh Saini to join the investigation in a cheating, forgery and corruption case registered against him, while staying his arrest in the matter.
- Sweltering summer, coal shortage fuel blackouts across states
A potent combination of sweltering summer and acute coal shortages have triggered blackouts across many parts of the country as states struggle to manage record demand for electricity and low feedstock at power plants.
- Ambala City double murder suspect nailed
The CIA-1 unit of the Ambala police has arrested a suspect in a firing incident that took place at Kalka chowk in Ambala City, which left two men dead and another two injured in March last year.
- Bed count at de - addiction centre to go up, says Mohali Deputy Commissioner Amit Talwar
The number of beds in the Drug De-addiction and Rehabilitation Centre in Sector 66 would be increased from 50 to 70. Deputy Commissioner Amit Talwar said this during his visit to this centre to review its working.
- Eco rally organised
The school organised an eco rally. Students of Class VII and IX participated in it with lots of enthusiasm. The rally passed through the OMAXE complex in New Chandigarh. Students made beautiful posters with powerful messages and slogans on the planet Earth.
- Chandigarh BSNL posts highest growth rate
The annual appreciation function of the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), Chandigarh business area, was organised here today.
- 4 booked for murder bid in Chandigarh
Chandigarh: The UT police have booked four persons for allegedly attacking a Sector 56 resident and his mother. The complainant, Ravi Kumar, alleged that Rishi, Gurmeet, Dinesh and one other person attacked the complainant’s brother, Ajay, and his mother with a sword near their house. The vict
- Purse stolen from car outside Sohana hospital
A masked man stole a purse containing cash, mobile phone, jewellery, ATM cards from a car at a hospital in Sohana here.
- 4 highway robbers nailed in Mohali, 11 luxury cars recovered
The police have arrested four members of a gang of highway robbers involved in carjacking cases and have recovered 11 luxury cars from them.
- Power cuts leave residents high and dry in Mohali district
Most parts of Mohali, Kharar, Zirakpur and Dera Bassi witnessed hours-long power outages till late in the evening. The water supply too was hit and residents were a harassed lot for most part of the day.
- Covid - 19: Eight more contract infection in Chandigarh
Chandigarh: The city recorded eight fresh coronavirus cases on Wednesday. The active case count now stands at 60. TNS
- 63 notices, two challans issued for wasting water in Chandigarh
The Municipal Corporation today issued 63 notices and two challans for wasting water in the city.
- Lapses in felling permits, no action against officials indicted by Punjab Vigilance Bureau
Almost a year after the Punjab Chief Vigilance Commissioner (CVC) wrote to the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF) to act against officials who were indicted by the Vigilance Bureau for serious lapses in the large-scale illegal felling of trees in Mirzapur forest (Mohali), the Forest Depar
- Drug trade
THE regularity with which drugs are seized is deeply worrying (‘Heroin seizures’). It can be safely assumed that for every seizure, at least 10 consignments pass unnoticed for distribution. The Taliban in Afghanistan has given a fillip to the drug trade via Pakistan. However the absence
